Means for protecting bolts, nuts, &amp;c.



` A. ADAM.

MEANS PoR PBOTBGTING BoLTs, NUTS, dw.

AIPLIOATIONV FILED JUNE 21, 1904.

Patented Oct. 4, 1910.

UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIcE. ANTOINE ADAM,*0E PHILADELPHIA, PENNsYLvANi AssreNoa To THE ELECTRIC STORAGE BATTERY COMPANY, 0E PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA, A CORPORA- TION 0F NEW JERSEY.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 4, 1 9'10.

Application mea :une 21, 1904. serial No. 213,492.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ANTOINEADAM, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented new and useful 'Means for Protecting Bolts, Their Nuts, and the Like, of which the following is a description.

In many situations such as where storage batteries are located, fumes or gases are present which attack many metals that are also employed. It is customary to coat such metal parts with other metals such as, for example, lead which resists the attacks of such fumes and gases. Bolts coated with resisting metal or material are employed in connection with metal parts in such situations, but the nuts in their'application to the bolts tend to and do remove and abrade the coating, leaving the threaded ends-f of the bolts to be attacked by such fumes and gases.

It is the object of the present Ainvention to provide means for obviating these diiiculties and to protect the threaded ends of bolts and the like from which the coating may have been wholly or partially removed, and stated in general terms, the invention comprises a receptacle adapted to contain if reqsuired a protecting su stance such as vaseline and to receive the end of the bolt and rovided with means for detachably secur- Ing it to the bolt or a part connected there-- with.

The invention al@ comprises the improvements to be presently described and finally claimed.

The nature, characteristic features and scope of the invention will be more fully understood from the following description taken lin connection with the accompanying drawings forming part hereof and m.

which- Figure 1, is a sectional view illustrating means embodying features of the invention, and Figs. 2 and 3 are similar Views illustratin modifications thereof.

In t e drawings 1, is a cup or receptacle adapted to contain vaseline or other protectmgmaterial-and to receive the end 2 of the bolt 3 which may be coatedl with proprotect. Provision is made for securing thls cup 1 to place as shown in the drawings. In Fig. 1, the cup is provided with a threaded socket 4 into which the end of the bolt 3 is screwed. The cu is also shown as' rovided with a portion 5 or the reception oi) a wrench, by means of which it can be vreadily applied to place. As shown in Fig. 2, the cup is'provided with a threaded projection 6 which may be screwed into the nut 7 which in its turn is applied to the bolt 3. As shown in Fig. 3, the cup 1, is arran ed to be driven vonto the rrnd of the bolt an for this purpose it may ble provided with a socket 8 thatcan be beve e The cup itself is made of some material which will resist the fumes or ases to which itis exposed and it serves to `old the vaseline or other protectin material in place, so as to protect the end o the bolt and also the nut 7, and also any parts the coating of which may have been abraded or removed by the application 'or the removal of the nut 7 and bolt 3.

In some instances the vaseline may be omitted and in such cases the lip of the receptacle is drawn up against the surface of the bolted member.

t'ecting material and the threaded end of. which it is desired to It will be obvious to those skilled in the art to which the invention relates that modiications may be made in details without departing from the spirit thereof, hence the invention 1s not limited further than may be required by the prior state of the art, but

Having thus described the nature and objects of my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1; Means for protecting the ends of bolts and their holding nuts and the like from the attack of fumes or ases which com rise the combination of the olt and its hol in nut and an imperforate cuplike receptac e of non-corrosive material adapted to receive and cover and inclose both the holding nut and the bolt-end and provided with means for securing it thereto, substantially as described.

2. Means for protecting -bolt-end's and I n their holding nuts and the like from the atand contained in the receptacle, substantack of fumes or gases which comprise the tially as described.

combination of the bolt-end and holding In testimony whereof I have hereunto nut, an imperforate cuplike receptacle covsigned my name. ering and inclosing the holding nut and bolt-end with space between and provided l Witnesses:

with means for securing it to place, and BRUCE FORD,

ANTOINE ADAM.

protecting material arranged in said space LEONARD H. WoRNE. 

